Joseph Conrad | British writer | Britannica.com British writer Alternative Title: Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski Joseph Conrad Robert Louis Stevenson Joseph Conrad, original name Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski (born Dec. 3, 1857, Berdichev , Ukraine , Russian Empire [now Berdychiv, Ukraine]—died Aug. 3, 1924, Canterbury , Kent , Eng.), English novelist and short-story writer of Polish descent, whose works include the novels Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), and The Secret Agent (1907) and the short story “Heart of Darkness” (1902). During his lifetime Conrad was admired for the richness of his prose and his renderings of dangerous life at sea and in exotic places. But his initial reputation as a masterful teller of colourful adventures of the sea masked his fascination with the individual when faced with nature’s invariable unconcern, man’s frequent malevolence, and his inner battles with good and evil. To Conrad, the sea meant above all the tragedy of loneliness.

A writer of complex skill and striking insight, but above all of an intensely personal vision, he has been increasingly regarded as one of the greatest English novelists. Joseph Conrad, 1916. Alvin Langdon Coburn—George Eastman House/Getty Images Conrad’s father, Apollo Nalęcz Korzeniowski, a poet and an ardent Polish patriot, was one of the organizers of the committee that went on in 1863 to direct the Polish insurrection against Russian rule. He was arrested in late 1861 and was sent into exile at Vologda in northern Russia. His wife and four-year-old son followed him there, and the harsh climate hastened his wife’s death from tuberculosis in 1865. In A Personal Record Conrad relates that his first introduction to the English language was at the age of eight, when his father was translating the works of Shakespeare and Victor Hugo in order to support the household. In those solitary years with his father he read the works of Sir Walter Scott , James Fenimore Cooper , Charles Dickens , and William Makepeace Thackeray in Polish and French. Apollo was ill with tuberculosis and died in Cracow in 1869.

Responsibility for the boy was assumed by his maternal uncle, Tadeusz Bobrowski, a lawyer, who provided his nephew with advice, admonition , financial help, and love. He sent Conrad to school at Cracow and then to Switzerland, but the boy was bored by school and yearned to go to sea. In 1874 Conrad left for Marseille with the intention of going to sea. Bobrowski made him an allowance of 2,000 francs a year and put him in touch with a merchant named Delestang, in whose ships Conrad sailed in the French merchant service. His first voyage, on the Mont-Blanc to Martinique , was as a passenger; on her next voyage he sailed as an apprentice. In July 1876 he again sailed to the West Indies , as a steward on the Saint-Antoine. On this voyage Conrad seems to have taken part in some unlawful enterprise, probably gunrunning, and to have sailed along the coast of Venezuela, memories of which were to find a place in Nostromo .

The first mate of the vessel, a Corsican named Dominic Cervoni, was the model for the hero of that novel and was to play a picturesque role in Conrad’s life and work. Britannica Stories Obama Acts to Protect the Arctic Conrad became heavily enmeshed in debt upon returning to Marseille and apparently unsuccessfully attempted to commit suicide. As a sailor in the French merchant navy he was liable to conscription when he came of age, so after his recovery he signed on in April 1878 as a deckhand on a British freighter bound for Constantinople with a cargo of coal. After the return journey his ship landed him at Lowestoft , Eng., in June 1878. It was Conrad’s first English landfall, and he spoke only a few words of the language of which he was to become a recognized master. Conrad remained in England , and in the following October he shipped as an ordinary seaman aboard a wool clipper on the London–Sydney run. British Culture and Politics Conrad was to serve 16 years in the British merchant navy.

In June 1880 he passed his examination as second mate, and in April 1881 he joined the Palestine, a bark of 425 tons. This move proved to be an important event in his life; it took him to the Far East for the first time, and it was also a continuously troubled voyage, which provided him with literary material that he would use later. Beset by gales, accidentally rammed by a steamer, and deserted by a sizable portion of her crew, the Palestine nevertheless had made it as far as the East Indies when her cargo of coal caught fire and the crew had to take to the lifeboats; Conrad’s initial landing in the East, on an island off Sumatra, took place only after a 13 1/2-hour voyage in an open boat. In 1898 Conrad published his account of his experiences on the Palestine, with only slight alterations, as the short story “ Youth,” a remarkable tale of a young officer’s first command.

Britannica Lists & Quizzes Editor Picks: Exploring 10 Types of Basketball Movies He returned to London by passenger steamer, and in September 1883 he shipped as mate on the Riversdale, leaving her at Madras to join the Narcissus at Bombay. This voyage gave him material for his novel The Nigger of the “Narcissus,” the story of an egocentric black sailor’s deterioration and death aboard ship. At about this time Conrad began writing his earliest known letters in the English language. In between subsequent voyages Conrad studied for his first mate’s certificate, and in 1886 two notable events occurred: he became a British subject in August , and three months later he obtained his master mariner’s certificate. In February 1887 he sailed as first mate on the Highland Forest, bound for Semarang, Java. Her captain was John McWhirr, whom he later immortalized under the same name as the heroic, unimaginative captain of the steamer Nan Shan in Typhoon. He then joined the Vidar, a locally owned steamship trading among the islands of the southeast Asian archipelago.

During the five or six voyages he made in four and a half months, Conrad was discovering and exploring the world he was to re-create in his first novels, Almayer’s Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, and Lord Jim , as well as several short stories. After leaving the Vidar Conrad unexpectedly obtained his first command, on the Otago, sailing from Bangkok , an experience out of which he was to make his stories “The Shadow-Line” and “Falk.” He took over the Otago in unpropitious circumstances. The captain Conrad replaced had died at sea, and by the time the ship reached Singapore , a voyage of 800 miles (1,300 km) that took three weeks because of lack of wind, the whole ship’s company, except Conrad and the cook, was down with fever. Conrad then discovered to his dismay that his predecessor had sold almost all the ship’s supply of quinine. Connect with Britannica Facebook Twitter YouTube Instagram Pinterest Back in London in the summer of 1889, Conrad took rooms near the Thames and, while waiting for a command, began to write Almayer’s Folly .

The task was interrupted by the strangest and probably the most important of his adventures. As a child in Poland, he had stuck his finger on the centre of the map of Africa and said, “When I grow up I shall go there.” In 1889 the Congo Free State was four years old as a political entity and already notorious as a sphere of imperialistic exploitation. Conrad’s childhood dream took positive shape in the ambition to command a Congo River steamboat . Using what influence he could, he went to Brussels and secured an appointment. What he saw, did, and felt in the Congo are largely recorded in “ Heart of Darkness ,” his most famous, finest, and most enigmatic story, the title of which signifies not only the heart of Africa, the dark continent, but also the heart of evil—everything that is corrupt, nihilistic, malign—and perhaps the heart of man. The story is central to Conrad’s work and vision, and it is difficult not to think of his Congo experiences as traumatic. He may have exaggerated when he said, “Before the Congo I was a mere animal,” but in a real sense the dying Kurtz’s cry, “The horror! The horror!” was Conrad’s.

He suffered psychological, spiritual, even metaphysical shock in the Congo, and his physical health was also damaged; for the rest of his life, he was racked by recurrent fever and gout. Conrad was in the Congo for four months, returning to England in January 1891. He made several more voyages as a first mate, but by 1894, when his guardian Tadeusz Bobrowski died, his sea life was over. In the spring of 1894 Conrad sent Almayer’s Folly to the London publisher Fisher Unwin, and the book was published in April 1895. It was as the author of this novel that Conrad adopted the name by which he is known: he had learned from long experience that the name Korzeniowski was impossible on British lips. Trending Topics Ottoman Empire Unwin’s manuscript reader, the critic Edward Garnett , urged Conrad to begin a second novel, and so Almayer’s Folly was followed in 1896 by An Outcast of the Islands, which repeats the theme of a foolish and blindly superficial character meeting the tragic consequences of his own failings in a tropical region far from the company of his fellow Europeans.

These two novels provoked a misunderstanding of Conrad’s talents and purpose which dogged him the rest of his life. Set in the Malayan archipelago, they caused him to be labeled a writer of exotic tales, a reputation which a series of novels and short stories about the sea—The Nigger of the “Narcissus” (1897), Lord Jim (1900), Youth (1902), Typhoon (1902), and others—seemed only to confirm. But words of his own about the “Narcissus” give the real reason for his choice of settings: “the problem . . . is not a problem of the sea, it is merely a problem that has risen on board a ship where the conditions of complete isolation from all land entanglements make it stand out with a particular force and colouring.” This is equally true of his other works; the latter part of Lord Jim takes place in a jungle village not because the emotional and moral problems that interest Conrad are those peculiar to jungle villages, but because there Jim’s feelings of guilt, responsibility, and insecurity—feelings common to mankind—work themselves out with a logic and inevitability that are enforced by his isolation.

It is this purpose, rather than a taste for the outlandish, that distinguishes Conrad’s work from that of many novelists of the 19th and early 20th centuries. They, for the most part, were concerned to widen the scope of the novel, to act, in Balzac’s phrase, as the natural historians of society; Conrad instead aimed at the isolation and concentration of tragedy. In 1895 Conrad married the 22-year-old Jessie George, by whom he had two sons. He thereafter resided mainly in the southeast corner of England, where his life as an author was plagued by poor health, near poverty, and difficulties of temperament. It was not until 1910, after he had written what are now considered his finest novels—Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), and Under Western Eyes (1911), the last being three novels of political intrigue and romance—that his financial situation became relatively secure. He was awarded a Civil List pension of £100, and the American collector John Quinn began to buy his manuscripts—for what now seem ludicrously low prices.

His novel Chance was successfully serialized in the New York Herald in 1912, and his novel Victory, published in 1915, was no less successful. Though hampered by rheumatism, Conrad continued to write for the remaining years of his life. In April 1924 he refused an offer of knighthood from Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald , and he died shortly thereafter. In his own time Conrad was praised for his power to depict life at sea and in the tropics and for his works’ qualities of “romance”—a word used basically to denote his power of using an elaborate prose style to cast a film of illusory splendour over somewhat sordid events. His reputation diminished after his death, and a revival of interest in his work later directed attention to different qualities and to different books than his contemporaries had emphasized. An account of the themes of some of these books should indicate where modern critics lay emphasis.

Nostromo (1904), a story of revolution, politics, and financial manipulation in a South American republic, centres, for all its close-packed incidents, upon one idea—the corruption of the characters by the ambitions that they set before themselves, ambitions concerned with silver, which forms the republic’s wealth and which is the central symbol around which the novel is organized. The ambitions range from simple greed to idealistic desires for reform and justice . All lead to moral disaster, and the nobler the ambition the greater its possessor’s self-disgust as he realizes his plight. “ Heart of Darkness ,” which follows closely the actual events of Conrad’s Congo journey, tells of the narrator’s fascination by a mysterious white man, Kurtz, who, by his eloquence and hypnotic personality, dominates the brutal tribesmen around him. Full of contempt for the greedy traders who exploit the natives, the narrator cannot deny the power of this figure of evil who calls forth from him something approaching reluctant loyalty. The Secret Agent (1907), a sustained essay in the ironic and one of Conrad’s finest works, deals with the equivocal world of anarchists, police, politicians, and agents provocateurs in London.

Victory (1915) describes the unsuccessful attempts of a detached, nihilistic observer of life to protect himself and his hapless female companion from the murderous machinations of a trio of rogues on an isolated island. This 1973 dramatization of Joseph Conrad’s short story “ The Secret Sharer In this 1973 production, Charles Van Doren, former vice president of Encyclopædia Britannica, … Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Conrad’s view of life is indeed deeply pessimistic. In every idealism are the seeds of corruption, and the most honourable men find their unquestioned standards totally inadequate to defend themselves against the assaults of evil. It is significant that Conrad repeats again and again situations in which such men are obliged to admit emotional kinship with those whom they have expected only to despise. This well-nigh despairing vision gains much of its force from the feeling that Conrad accepted it reluctantly, rather than with morbid enjoyment. Conrad’s influence on later novelists has been profound both because of his masterly technical innovations and because of the vision of humanity expressed through them. He is the novelist of man in extreme situations.

“Those who read me,” he wrote in his preface to A Personal Record , “know my conviction that the world, the temporal world, rests on a few very simple ideas; so simple that they must be as old as the hills. It rests, notably, among others, on the idea of Fidelity.” For Conrad fidelity is the barrier man erects against nothingness, against corruption, against the evil that is all about him, insidious , waiting to engulf him, and that in some sense is within him unacknowledged. But what happens when fidelity is submerged, the barrier broken down, and the evil without is acknowledged by the evil within? At his greatest, that is Conrad’s theme. Feminist and postcolonialist readings of Modernist works have focused on Conrad and have confirmed his centrality to Modernism and to the general understanding of it. Joseph Conrad, 1923. Joseph Conrad - Wikisource, the free online library Joseph Conrad sister projects : Wikipedia article , Commons gallery , Commons category , quotes , data item . A Polish novelist who wrote in English. Birth name: Korzeniowski, Józef Teodor Konrad.

He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe. His best known works include The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' (1897), Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907) and Under Western Eyes (1911). — Excerpted from Joseph Conrad on Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia. Joseph Conrad 3762Q82925Joseph ConradJosephConradConrad,_JosephJoseph Conrad.PNG18571924A Polish novelist who wrote in English. Birth name: Korzeniowski, Józef Teodor Konrad. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe.

His best known works include The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' (1897), Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907) and Under Western Eyes (1911). — Excerpted from Joseph Conrad on Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia. Contents The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad audio book | Simply Audiobooks Author Details Overview Joseph Conradâs The Secret Agent is a tale of anarchism, espionage and terrorism. Our agent, a man named Mr Verloc, minds his own business while he keeps his shop in Londonâs Soho, alongside his wife, who attends to her aged mother and disabled brother. Their lives are turned upside down when Verloc is reluctantly employed to plant a bomb and destroy an observatory in London. What was once the perfect bomb plot inevitably turns awry and Verloc, his family and his associates are forced to face the consequences.

Conradâs later political novel bears all the hallmarks of his captivating style: The Secret Agent brims with melodious and poetic language, alongside crystal- clear psychological insights that could only be the work of a uniquely gifted storyteller. Selected Reviews Author Details Conrad, Joseph "Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Poland in 1857. His original name was Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski. He is best known for his novels Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), and The Secret Agent (1907) and the short story Heart of Darkness (1902). Typical for his works is deep pessimism: he writes stories of men in extreme situations as in Heart of Darkness about a man who finds himself drawn to a savage whom he only should despise. He first became familiar with English language at the age of eight when his father translated works of Shakespeare. Joseph went to school in Cracow and Switzerland but what he really wanted to do was to go to the sea. In 1874, he went to Marseille to get a job on a ship.

The following years he spent sailing around the world, where he was involved in gunrunning. He gambled a lot, had huge debts and even attempted suicide by shooting himself in the chest. In 1878, he landed for the first time in England and spent the next 16 years in the British merchant navy. In 1886, he became a British citizen. The experiences from his life as a sailor greatly influenced his writing. However, since childhood he had always wanted to go to Africa. In 1889, he traveled to the Congo and became a captain of a Congo river steamboat. What he saw, did, and felt in the Congo are largely recorded in ""Heart of Darkness,"" his most famous, finest, and most enigmatic story, the title of which signifies not only the heart of Africa, the dark continent, but also the heart of evil--everything that is corrupt, nihilistic, malign--and perhaps the heart of man. The story is central to Conrad's work and vision, and it is difficult not to think of his Congo experiences as traumatic.

He may have exaggerated when he said, ""Before the Congo I was a mere animal,"" but in a real sense the dying Kurtz's cry, ""The horror! The horror!"" was Conrad's. He suffered psychological, spiritual, even metaphysical shock in the Congo, and his physical health was also damaged; for the rest of his life, he was racked by recurrent fever and gout."" Conrad returned to England in 1891 and worked as a sailor for the last time in 1894. His first book Almayer's Folly was published in 1895 and the next year An Outcast of the Islands. Conrad's best novels are considered to be Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), and Under Western Eyes (1911). Conrad got married in 1895 with Jessie George and had two sons with her. He lived in poor conditions, his health was failing and he often got in trouble with his temperament. Finally, in 1910 he started to get some recognition for his work and his financial situation improved.

In April 1924 he refused an offer of knighthood from Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald. The same year Conrad died. " Lord Jim | novel by Conrad | Britannica.com novel by Conrad The Picture of Dorian Gray Lord Jim, novel by Joseph Conrad , published in 1900. The work, originally intended as a short story, grew to a full-length novel as Conrad explored in great depth the perplexing, ambiguous problem of lost honour and guilt, expiation and heroism. The title character is a man haunted by guilt over an act of cowardice. He becomes an agent at an isolated East Indian trading post. There his feelings of inadequacy and responsibility are played out to their logical and inevitable end. Learn More in these related articles: Joseph Conrad Dec. 3, 1857 Berdichev, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Berdychiv, Ukraine] Aug. 3, 1924 Canterbury, Kent, Eng. English novelist and short-story writer of Polish descent, whose works include the novels Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), and The Secret Agent (1907) and the short story “Heart of...

in English literature: The Edwardians ...cost imposed his meaning upon the world because he could not endure a world that did not reflect his central place within it. In Almayer’s Folly (1895) and Lord Jim (1900), he had seemed to sympathize with this predicament; but in “ Heart of Darkness in tragedy: A new vehicle: the novel The work of the Polish-born English novelist Joseph Conrad provides another kind of setting for novels used as vehicles of the tragic sense. Lord Jim (1900), originally conceived as a short story, grew to a full-length novel as Conrad found himself exploring in ever greater depth the perplexing, ambiguous problem of lost honour and guilt, expiation and heroism. Darkness and doubt brood... 4 References found in Britannica Articles Assorted References Corrections? Updates? Help us improve this article! Contact our editors with your feedback. MEDIA FOR: You have successfully emailed this. Error when sending the email. Try again later. Edit Mode Submit Tips For Editing We welcome suggested improvements to any of our articles. You can make it easier for us to review and, hopefully, publish your contribution by keeping a few points in mind.

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Literary and Historical Notes: It was on this day in 1947 that Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire premiered in New York City . Williams spent months writing and revising the play, and he had three different working titles for it: The Moth, Blanche's Chair on the Moon, and The Poker Night. Then he moved to an apartment in the French Quarter of New Orleans, where he could hear two streetcars rattling by, one named Desire and one named Cemeteries. He changed the setting of his play to New Orleans, and he changed the title to A Streetcar Named Desire. The play is about a southern belle named Blanche DuBois who comes to live with her sister Stella and Stella's working class husband Stanley. Stanley thinks Blanche is trying to swindle the couple, and his anger and physical aggression eventually drive her to insanity. At one point, Blanche says, "I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell truth, I tell what ought to be truth.

And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!" The play got a 30-minute standing ovation on opening night, and it ran for over 800 performances. Stella was originally played by Kim Hunter, Blanche by Jessica Tandy, and Stanley by a twenty-three-year-old Marlon Brando. The play was made into a movie in 1951 with most of the original cast, and it was nominated for twelve Academy Awards. It's the birthday of novelist Joseph Conrad , born in Berdichev, Ukraine (1857), in a region that had once been part of Poland. His father was a poet and translator of English and French literature. Joseph and his father read books written in both Polish and French. By the time he was 12 years old, both of his parents had died of tuberculosis. He went to Switzerland to live with his uncle, but after a few years he decided he wanted to go off and see the world. He joined the French merchant marine, and began a long career as a sailor. He sailed to Australia, Borneo, Malaysia, South America, the South Pacific, and Africa.

He joined the British merchant navy, and in 1886 became a citizen of Great Britain. In the fall of 1889, Conrad settled in London for a few months. One morning, after he finished his breakfast, he told his maid to clear away all the dishes immediately. Normally, he would sit by the window and read from a book by Dickens or Hugo or Shakespeare. But on this morning he felt unusually calm and perceptive. He later wrote, "It was an autumn day . . . with fiery points and flashes of red sunlight on the roofs and windows opposite, while the trees of the square with all their leaves gone were like tracings of an Indian ink on a sheet of tissue paper." He began to write his first novel, Almayer's Folly, which would be published six years later. It's about a man from the Netherlands who trades on the jungle rivers of Borneo.

Conrad said, "The conception of a planned book was entirely outside my mental range when I sat down to write." He said he felt "a hidden obscure necessity, a completely masked and unaccountable phenomenon." Conrad went on to write many more novels, including Lord Jim (1900), The Secret Agent (1907), and Nostromo (1904). But he's most famous for Heart of Darkness (1902), about a man's journey down a river into the middle of Africa. Conrad wrote, in Heart of Darkness, "It is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence,--that which makes its truth, its meaning-its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream-alone." Conrad said the task of the writer is "to make you hear, to make you feel-it is, before all, to make you see. That-and no more, and it is everything." Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® « » “Writers end up writing stories—or rather, stories' shadows—and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough.

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more First appearance of works in book form 1895 Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River Novel 1896 An Outcast of the Islands Novel 1897 The Nigger of the 'Narcissus': A Tale of the Sea Novel, also called The Children of the Sea: A Tale of the Forecastle 1898 Tales of Unrest Five stories "Karain, a Memory", "The Idiots", "An Outpost of Progress", "The Return", "The Lagoon" 1900 The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story Novel, with Ford Madox Ford 1902 Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories Two stories, one novella Stories "Youth: A Narrative", "The End of the Tether"; novella Heart of Darkness 1903 Typhoon and Other Stories Four stories "Typhoon", "Falk", "Amy Foster", "To-Morrow" Romance Novel, with Ford Madox Ford 1904 Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard Novel 1906 The Mirror of the Sea: Memories and Impressions Memoirs 1907

 The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale Novel "Gaspar Ruiz", "The Informer", "The Brute", "An Anarchist", "The Duel" also called "The Point of Honor", "Il Conde" 1908 A Set of Six Six stories 1911 'Twixt Land and Sea Three stories "A Smile of Fortune", "The Secret Sharer", "Freya of the Seven Isles" A Personal Record Memoir Chance: A Tale in Two Parts Novel 1915 Victory: An Island Tale Novel Within the Tides: Tales Four stories "The Planter of Malata", "The Partner", "The Inn of the Two Witches", "Because of the Dollars" 1917 The Shadow Line: A Confession Novella 1919 The Arrow of Gold Novel Autocracy and War One Day More: A Play in One Act Play The Shock of War: Through Germany to Cracow Tradition The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows Novel 1921 Notes on Life and Letters Essays 1923 The Secret Agent: A Drama in Three Acts Play 1924 The Nature of a Crime Novel, with Ford Madox Ford The Shorter

 Tales of Joseph Conrad Stories Laughing Anne & One Day More: Two Plays by Joseph Conrad Two plays incl.

Laughing Anne Joseph Conradï¿½s Letters to His Wife Letter 1928 Conrad to a Friend Letters Letters from Joseph Conrad, 1895-1924 Letters, ed. Edward Garnett Letters: Joseph Conrad to Richard Curle Letters, ed. Richard Curle The Sisters Novel, unfinished Letters of Joseph Conrad to Marguerite Poradowska, 1890-1920 Letters 1958 Letters to William Blackwood and David S. Meldrum Letters, ed. William Blackburn 1964 Joseph Conrad on Fiction Essays, ed. Walter F. Wright 1969 Joseph Conradï¿½s Letters to R. B. Cunninghame Graham Letters, ed. C.T. Watts 1977 Selected Tales from Conrad Stories, ed. Nigel Stewart 1978 The Congo Diary and Other Uncollected Pieces ed.

Zdzislaw Najder 1978 Joseph Conrad - Little Histories Little Histories Books that explore the history of the world's most remarkable people, events and ideas Menu Menu Remarkable People We were inspired to look more closely at some of the key figures that appear in our Little History books by an interaction with a reader on the Little History facebook page . We really liked the idea of finding out what the series has to say about all sorts of ‘remarkable people’, both heroes and villains, and we’re putting together this resource for you to explore. Whether you’re looking for help with your homework (!), or trying to fill a gap in your knowledge, Little History books and their cast of characters have plenty to offer. Polish novelist, short-story writer, and author of 'Heart of Darkness' 1857 – 1924 A Polish author who wrote novels and short stories in English, Joseph Conrad is often cited as one of the greatest novelists in English literature. Despite not speaking the language fluently until his twenties, Conrad steadily honed his craft to become a brilliant prose stylist.

His experiences in the navy formed the basis for many of his novels, perhaps most prominently Heart of Darkness (1902), a novella about the cruel realities of colonisation. Conrad’s other works include Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), and The Secret Agent (1907). Mentioned in

Question: Who wrote the novels 'Lord Jim' (1900) and 'The Secret Agent' (1907)?
Answer: JOSEPH CONRAD